In December 17, 2015, during the public hearings held in the village of Tekali, Georgia, Chairman of Gazakh-Agstafa branch of the Helsinki Associate in Azerbaijan, Doctor of the Gazakh city hospital emergency service, Khamis Masimov, emphasizing the role of civil society in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict settlement, noted, “I think that the civil sector should be more active on this issue, to elaborate a plan with which it should gradually move forward. If we do not know what we are going to do tomorrow, what we should do 3 days later, what are we talking about? Well, the non-governmental organizations are almost eliminated in Azerbaijan, no problems are left with non-governmental organizations, a few human rights defenders who today, more or less, are left on the surface, they are attacked politically and economically. In Armenia, the civil sector can, more or less, work.”
Voskan SARGSYAN
